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Illness Prevention and Medical Insurance

In: The Economics of Physician and Patient Behavior

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  • Charles E. Phelps

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  • Charles E. Phelps, 1978. "Illness Prevention and Medical Insurance," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of Physician and Patient Behavior, pages 183-207, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberch:14227
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    1. Joseph P. Newhouse, 2021. "An Ounce of Prevention," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 35(2), pages 101-118, Spring.
    2. Eibich, Peter & Goldzahl, Léontine, 2020. "Health information provision, health knowledge and health behaviours: Evidence from breast cancer screening," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 265(C).
    3. Frederic P. Slade, 1981. "Health Care Incentives under Disability Insurance," NBER Working Papers 0813, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Aniko Biro;, 2012. "An analysis of mammography decisions with a focus on educational differences," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 12/11, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
    5. Grant Miller & Diana Pinto & Marcos Vera-Hernández, 2013. "Risk Protection, Service Use, and Health Outcomes under Colombia's Health Insurance Program for the Poor," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 5(4), pages 61-91, October.
    6. David A. Hennessy, 2008. "Prevention and cure efforts both substitute and complement," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(4), pages 503-511, April.
    7. Felix C.H. Gottschalk, 2019. "Why prevent when it does not pay? Prevention when health services are credence goods," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(5), pages 693-709, May.
    8. Christian Schmid, 2015. "Consumer Health Information and the Demand for Physician Visits," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 24(12), pages 1619-1631, December.
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    10. Albrecht Fritzsche & Alexander Bohnert, 2022. "Implications of bundled offerings for business development and competitive strategy in digital insurance," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 47(4), pages 817-834, October.
    11. Vincenzo Carrieri & Ansgar Wuebker, 2016. "Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Health Information on Preventive Behaviour in Europe," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 78(6), pages 765-791, December.
    12. Howell, Bronwyn, 2001. "Health Sector Failures in New Zealand: Act of God, Act of Man or Inadequacies in Control Design," Working Paper Series 19000, Victoria University of Wellington, The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation.
    13. Yuriy Pylypchuk & Julie Hudson, 2009. "Immigrants and the use of preventive care in the United States," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 18(7), pages 783-806, July.
    14. Powell-Jackson, Timothy & Hanson, Kara & Whitty, Christopher J.M. & Ansah, Evelyn K., 2014. "Who benefits from free healthcare? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 107(C), pages 305-319.
    15. Howell, Bronwyn, 2001. "Health Sector Failures in New Zealand: Act of God, Act of Man or Inadequacies in Control Design," Working Paper Series 3901, Victoria University of Wellington, The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation.
    16. Sun, Huan & Wang, Haiyan & Steffensen, Sonja, 2022. "Mechanism design of multi-strategy health insurance plans under asymmetric information," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 107(C).
    17. Shiv Dixit, 2023. "Contract Enforcement and Preventive Healthcare: Theory and Evidence," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 51, pages 1048-1094, December.
    18. Yong Kang Cheah & Chor Foon Tang, 2017. "Factors Influencing the use of Preventive Medical Care in Malaysia: Evidence from National Health and Morbidity Survey Data," Asian Economic Journal, East Asian Economic Association, vol. 31(2), pages 119-137, June.
    19. Byung Kwang Yoo & Kevin Frick, 2005. "Determinants of influenza vaccination timing," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(8), pages 777-791, August.

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